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BY W l I ATTORNEY Patented May 22, 1951 s Parser orrics FOLDING LEG BRACKET George Balabushka, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Murray Shapiro, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application June 30, 1949, Serial No. 102,400

1 Claim.

My invention relates to a folding leg bracket for articles of furniture and the like, and it is an object of the same to provide a simple, cheap and effective bracket having various advantages over those heretofore in use.

Among the advantages of my bracket are: the fact that the legs fold in one direction instead of in various directions as, for instance, in bridge tables of ordinary construction; that my bracket has an angle corner support by means of which the frame may be braced in addition to supporting the leg; there is no need to press any release to fold or unfold the legs; the bracket is;practicaliy a one-piece device, and is so in its'completed stage; and it can be used in any corner.

Referring to the appended drawings, which are made a part of this application and in which similar reference characters indicate similar parts:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a cot to which the device of my invention may be applied,

Fig. 2, a perspective of a righthand bracket and related parts,

Fig. 3, a top plan of the same,

Fig. 4, a section on line 4-4 of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5, a side elevation of a left leg and its bracket.

In the drawings, reference character ill indicates the body of a cot, having legs II and I2, said view showing in broken lines the positions of the legs when folded. It will be understood that the bracket of my invention may be used in other articles of furniture and in other relations, though here illustrated in a cot.

As shown in Figs. 1 to 3, the leg 12 is pivoted to the body parts of the bracket by a bolt 13, and the bracket comprises a straplike body member bent or stamped out to provide body parts l4, I lying in a common plane, said parts being connected by an inwardly offset part it. At its left end in Figs. 1 to 3 the body has an inwardly bent brace arm ll that is still farther bent back at 18. A Z-shaped body member has an arm 19 attached to the body part is of the first-named body member by rivets or other securing means. This member has another arm 2| offset from the first and connected thereto by an intermediate member 29.

The parts If: and [Bare provided with holes to attach the bracket to the members of a cot frame or the like by screws or nails or the like. The parts It and 2i are each provided with four holes at their four corners, each equally distant from the pivot l3 for further connection of the parts by rivets, bolts or the like, as indicated at 23, 24.

The left bracket shown in Fig. 5 is similar in all respects to that shown in Figs. 1 to 3, except that in the one case the rivets 23, 24 are located differently than. in the other. If it be assumed that the two brackets shown in Figs. 4 and 5 are at opposite ends of the cot of Fig. 1 but at the same side of the cot, then the rivets 23, 24, will be located respectively in the upper righthand and lower lefthand corners of the bracket of Fig. 4, but in the upper lefthand and the lower righthand corner of the bracket in Fig. 5, both being viewed from outside the frame and so looking through the part 2! and toward the part It for one bracket but through the part it and toward the part 2! for the other.

It will be evident that all that is necessary to adapt a bracket for use at one side of the frame of an article of furniture rather than at the other, in the case of cot frames, table tops, and the like, is to reverse the positions of the rivets 23, 24. The legs 12 and 12 will lie parallel to each other when folded, or approximately so, and the same is true of those at the other side of the cot frame. The bolt i3 serves as a pivot and the rivets 23, 24 serve as limit stops for the movement of the legs, as indicated in Figs. 4

and 5.

It will be evident to those skilled in'the art that numerous changes may be made in the device herein disclosed, all without departing from the spirit of the invention; and therefore I do not limit myself to what is shown in the drawings and described in the specification but only as indicated in the appended claim.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is:

A folding leg bracket having a rectangular opening to receive an end of a table leg or the like, a pivot mounted in the walls at opposite sides of the rectangular opening, holes in each of said walls arranged at the corners of a square about the pivot, the holes in one wall registering respectively with those in the other wall, and a pair of rivets in holes at diagonally opposite corners of said squares.

GEORGE BALABUSHKA.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,829,918 Andrews Nov. 3, 1931 1,832,673 Uline Nov. 17, 1931 1,888,651 Berssenbrugge Nov. 22, 1932 1,938,507 Wilson Dec. 5, 1933 1,946,620 Hallawell Feb. 13, 1934 1,962,126 Anderson June 12, 1934 2,230,220 Cummins Feb. 4, 1941 2,271,332 Ellington Jan. 27, 1942 2,463,082 Brown Mar. 1, 1949 

